Liverpool supporters take aim at club's American owners by reaching out to U.S. media

Some Liverpool supporters are so upset with the state of their beloved club, they have begun a mass e-mail campaign directed at hundreds of U.S. reporters with wide-ranging beats. They want us, in the media, to take up their cause against the club's American owners. We feel your pain, lads.

Dear USA Media Executive/Outlet:

We gave you THE BEATLES and this is how you repay us? What happened to the 'Special Relationship' between the US and the UK?

Are you aware of how Tom Hicks is driving our beloved Liverpool Football Club into the ground? How would you like it if a British "businessman" came over to the USA and destroyed the New York Yankees. Or the LA Lakers. Or the Washington
Redskins?

Well, we are living Wayne Huizenga and the Florida Marlins all over again!
Please Google "Tom Hicks + Liverpool" to see what an embarrassment he is
to the USA.

We would be grateful if you could help us by reporting our story in order
that me might persuade Wall Street NOT to lend him the money he is currently
trying to raise, to drive our football team into even more debt and
despair.

Sorry about the mass email approach but we have tried everything else, and we feel like we are at the end of the road.

Not going to win me over with "how would you like it if a Brit destroyed the Skins, Yankees and Lakers" argument...because I would absolutely love it!!! In fact, if LFC supporters send a Brit to do that, they will get every bit of assistance I can offer in getting Hicks out of England. Besides I am enjoying watching my Liverpool friends squirm for now.

A better solution would be for a REAL America bizhero to buy out Hicks and demonstrate that we do have some CLASS on the global pitch. Liverpool FC could become America's fan favorite...a few Yank pups breaking into the XI would capture our attention and our wallets. Profitability is possible - probable with a strong youth system raising up the next StevieG's. Especially if the USA youth system was a major contributor?

Brits are gonna face a new owner eventually - either from the East or West. Paul Allen, Mark Cuban, or _______ could make it work. Jerry Jones?

I love it when the Brits mention the "special relationship" between our countries. This concept exists only in Britain. Over here, we'll use them or not use them as needed (best recent example: Bush, Blair, and Iraq).

Having said that: Robert Green is definitely my favorite Englishman these days.

Huizenga took a young, champion Marlins and sold off most of the big pieces that brought their championship. The team succeeded in going from first to last-place the very next year, the only team to lose 100 games the year after winning the World Series. After the disastrous 1998 season, Huizenga sold the team. The assumption was the "fire sale" was intended to remove big salary liabilities that made the team harder to sell. Presumably, something similar is going on with Liverpool right now, as Hicks needs to get some money out of a sale of the team -- a team with so much debt it seems unlikely that anyone would offer more than paying off or assuming that debt.

What, pray tell, would we do? Wall Street will invest if it's a good investment. Free enterprise works that way. Like Gordon Gekko 1.0 said after being asked why he wrecked Blue Star, "Because it was wreckable!" I think their efforts are laudable but very much in vain.

Good for them. As an American Liverpool supporter, its just sad to see what Hicks and Gillett have done to such an amazing club. The fall of LFC is like watching DCU these last few yrs except worse. If the club has to go to administration to get rid of these two clowns then so be it.

That last one's my favorite. Like that's supposed to be an insult or criticism. I guess if you subscribe to white superiority, then you might have a problem with someone who thinks Africans should govern themselves. I thought this country's fathers believed in anti-colonial ideology. George Washington. Barack Obama. All of a sudden, it's a bad thing?

Firstly just because BP still stands for British petroleum doesn't mean it's British and secondly the American peoples desire for oil with huge gas guzzling cars have to take some responsibility for the oil spill.
American oil company never had an oil slick???? Did you care NO??

Right let's get down to Mr HIcks control of the most successful football club in English football, when Mr HIcks took over we had a modest debt of 4 million pounds debt now stands at around 400 million pounds.

It should be known that Liverpool football club is more than a soccer franchise it's a community and a family that has been around for 118 years.
When your local community comes under seige your natural instinct is to protect it by any means necessary,but this Texan has raped and pillaged our great club by placing massive amounts of debt to line his own pockets.
The thing is when people lie to us and about us, the family and community mentality in us protects what we have just google the sun newspaper and Liverpool football club to find out what family and community does.

The original letter was our attempt of a little humour with the beatles comment, never mind us Brits having a sense of humour us scousers are better equipped.

Liverpool football club is our church in our community help us and You'll Never Walk Alone

Whoa fischy. There wasn't anything racist or homophobic in that comment. Cut back on the coffee amigo (I know you've been boycotting tea).

kopchoir: no-one is disputing what Hicks has done to Liverpool's finances and what other owners (American and European) have done to other big clubs. But it's unrealistic to think that spamming the American media will get you anything but ridicule. Heck, Glenn Beck might advocate for more people like Tom Hicks to destroy soccer.

As a Liverpool fan who is also passionate about baseball and football (your version as opposed to soccer) let me make it clear that we are not opposed to American investment in our sport - Randy Lerner is regarded as an enlightened owner at Aston Villa Football Club, who has not saddled the club with millions of dollars of debt, but has spent what he can afford.

Reignking, most soccer fans (and club owners) would love a salary cap; sadly soccer's world governing body, FIFA, will not fight for an exemption under European employment laws to allow one to be introduced.

peridigm, we are no more happy with what happened in the Gulf of Mexico than you, and if Liverpool had a history of working in the oil industry I'm sure, given the levels of unemployment in the City, our guys would willingly help clean up the oil spill, but if you bother with facts, and check your racism in at the door, you would know that BP is not a British company (thanks to Margaret "The Witch" Thatcher; the majority shareholders are the Royal Family of Dubai, and AN AMERICAN PENSION FUND. Whoops, don't you look dumb now!

We are asking our friends in America to bring whatever pressure they can, through their pension funds, whatever, to ensure that Hicks does not get the refinancing to continue his ownership of our club beyond October.

We've lost thousands of our troops thanks to Dubya and Blair's illegal invasion of Iraq, you can at least give us something minor in return!

Whoa fischy. There wasn't anything racist or homophobic in that comment. Cut back on the coffee amigo (I know you've been boycotting tea).

Posted by: I-270Exit1 | September 24, 2010 7:33 A

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I didn't suggest it was homophobic. I just think it was in line -- of a kind with the juvenile criticisms you see on the internet, in or out of politics. Someone used "faggy" on SBI earlier this week. It's the same mentality to me. The same mindlessness you might expect from a 12-year old.

As for racist --"El Commandante"? Did Bill Clinton ever get called that? Jimmy Carter? Don't tell me it's not racist. That said, I was only calling Newt Gingrich racist, and anyone who might agree with his comment about Obama and "ante-colonial ideology" he somehow "inherited" from the father he barely knew.

fischy, if you think that calling a president "El Commandante" is racist, then you don't know what racism really is. Racism is the belief that one's ethnic backround overrides any and all other factors...such as values, talent, opinions and behavior. In that regard, your apparently "liberal" friends are far more racist than the average American.

I find "El Commandante" appropriate for our current President because of his arrogant, overbearing manner and his quasi-leftist political philosophy...both of which he shares with a lot of people who have no African heritage.

Hi All, Read your comments with interest now lets make one thing clear as a scouser and a life long LIVERPOOL fan who goes to the games and supports his team with passion, our fans were asking for your help as a last resort, to help us get rid of a pair of lying american cowboys. But some of the comments on the site are pathetic. Firstly why bring the war into it, we were well on the way to winning it on our own! Do you remember vietnam, we were not involved and look what happened you could not handle it without us. Your Quest for big fast cars is the major cause of the BP oil spill and dont try to tell me no yanks are involved with BP cause we all know they are.
I could go on all night but i am not that petty just help publisise our plight because i for one dont belive that all americans are lying tossers only a few!
Many thanks we will never walk alone

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